Word: william
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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JAMES MARSH JACKSON,WILLIAM TRAVERS GRAY,WILLIAM ALLEN BROOKS, JR.,Committee...
...heavy by the variety of subjects treated. The number opens with a dialect story of country life by Sarah Orne Jewett. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem upon Napoleon III., entitled "The Last Caesar," a reverie in the Tuileries gardens, is one of the strongest of his later productions. Mr. William Chauncey Langdon contributes a sketch of Marco Minghetti, the lately deceased Italian patriot. Clinton Scollard's poem, "The Maenads" is carefully written, but does not have the spontaneity of the most of his verse. It is hard and slightly mechanical. "The Decline of Duty," by George Frederic Parsons...
...William C. Dole, known to Yale men throughout the country as "Prof.," died yesterday, aged 65. He had been an athlete and trainer for nearly 40 years, the last fifteen of which had been spent at New Haven, during which time he had trained many of Yale's noted athletes and cared for many of her class and university crews. Three of his sons are professional trainers, located at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and St. Paul's school, Concord...
...large collection of specimens of Massachusetts Birds, particularly the Summer visitors, has been placed at the disposal of the Natural History Society to illustrate Mr. William Brewster's talk to night. Mr. Brewster will give particular attention to the birds that are with us throughout the year and to our summer visitors, and will accompany his talk with some directions for the collecting of birds and eggs. Owing to the considerable number of Amateur ornithologists in college active in collecting, the talk comes very opportunately with the pleasant weather for outdoor work...
...charges referred to were these: That William had employed professionals to play this year upon the college nine; and that last October, only three days before a date upon which Williams had agreed to play a game of foot-ball with Harvard at Williams town, she had cancelled the game and played on that day with Yale instead...